)(-red )(-red )(-red )(-red :-bash i have set up my technimates 7755 2va 2ci stab 120 motor 85 cm clear dish and every think went well tile i checked the signal quality.signal reads 88 quality only 10 ive changed the longitude by 000.1 and no luck poles plum motor south checked with digi compass dish facing thor 72 on the digi sat meter still no luck wot else is there to check i need help thank you:mad: 'O'-red

Just for info, signal "quality" is (usually!) derived from the Viterbi inner convolution stage, basically, it shows how hard the error correction is working to "clean up" a corrupt signal.

So, if quality is low, that means the received signal's very corrupt (indepedently of strength, high strength should also mean good quality, but not necessarily!), so received bit errors are high, and the viterbi decoding is working unusally hard!.

It shouldn't have anything to do with the actual symbol rate, since the sig/noise ratio of a satellite channel is fixed by transponder power, and modulation method (always QPSK).

Usually, this would mean an interferring signal, maybe the lnb polarisation's off, or just possibly rf interfernce from another source?

it looks set to thor but the signal quality is still10 this is the best singal on the digi sat meter at about the thor area on the sat finder still on joy tp's whats that all about very very new to this

In which case, Llew, Technomate's "signal quality" is somewhat different from the usual meaning, common to other DTT and sat box makers ....(added) Sorry, I should have said "Lancelot" not "Llew", must try reading what's in front of me, huh?!

i think i may of sorted it out will see tomorrow to dark now.the sta compass i have got as been giving me wrong read outs it was showing thor but it was astra 19e just moved it to the right and iam on hotbird now signal quality 60 .all this time i have been a few hundred miles out tomorrow if i move it to the right a bit more i think (hope) i will come across thor thank you let you know tomorrow

i just cannot understand the sat/compass giving the wrong reading i brought it to help it has made it worst.so if i set the motor and dish to thor will that be ok or will i have to set the motor south i have not got a compass so i will just have to guess a couple of taps with the hammer left should be fine.